Edmond de Goncourt

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.