"My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God."

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

“The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.”

Source : Michael Bamberger (2005). “To the Linksland: A Golfing Adventure”, Gotham

“My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.”

“I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.”

“But one thing that seems pretty clear when we look at human religion is that it's highly tied in with human culture. So if, as seems to be the case, culture's governing a lot of what whales do, it's perhaps not an unreasonable hypothesis to think that it's got elements of...what I guess you'd call the supernatural.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.”

“All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.”

“Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.”

Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.