Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

You can't do clear observation if you ain't in the field. You can't be a pure observer if you're now in the field.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed

He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.