I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

I am not working for myself alone, I believe in the absolute necessity for a new art of color, of design, and - of the artistic life..

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.