"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."