If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

When we separate music from life we get art.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture."

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in between whether we know it or not.

The first question I ask myself when something doesnt seem to be beautiful is why do I feel its not beautiful And very shortly you discover there is no reason.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see something to hear. In fact try as we may to make a silence we cannot.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part.

Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want?

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someones offense over them the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

The necklace of life is strung with the pearls of everyday memories; treasure them.

Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.

Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

I love to do Pilates, Bar Method, and spin. I'm addicted.

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

I know many crooks and they never preach but I dont know anyone who preaches that isnt a crook also.

Never give up searching for the job that youre passionate about. Try to find the job youd have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When youre associating with the people that you love doing what you love it doesnt get any better than that.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!'