Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. |

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. |

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. |

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. |

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. |

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. |

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. |

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. |

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. |

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. |

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. |

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. |

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. |

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. |

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. |

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things. |

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it. |

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. |

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. |

The death of a world is judgment of its inadequacy. Death removes the unnecessary and the false. |

You are what you leave behind. |

I will learn by screwing up. |

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy. |

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. |