When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?

We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we can buy these drones from the Israelis, and we've decided that the way to proceed is to use this new technology to go and kill anybody that we don't like or who disagrees with us or who we might perceive as making an existential threat.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Life is long. But it goes fast.