"There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others."

-- Thelonious Monk

“I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.”
“I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.”
“Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!”
“Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.”
“The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.”
“The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.”
“I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.”
“Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.”

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