No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. [to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]
If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
Takes more than combat boots to make a man.
I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.
Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are being forced, to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.
I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.