The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones-when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now-perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

Daddy's just not a very handy guy when it comes to installing windows.