"I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things."

"The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture."

"There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music."

"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."

"If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead."

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

"I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life."

"I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it."