"Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire."

-- Morton Feldman

“I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.”
“Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'--makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.”
“Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.”
“You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.”
“The best of the people are the first to greet others.”
“What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.”
“Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.”
“As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.”

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