"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia."

"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."

"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed."

"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them."

"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."