"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."

"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."

"There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much."

"I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic."

"It is a humble truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world."

"It is a quiet truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing."

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."