Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature and it is to their ideas rather than to the temptations of utopia that we must ask that our judges adhere.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on which would play for a while and finish.

We live in the mind in ideas in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Movies are all about plot. Theater even if it's story heavy it's about ideas.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake when your mind is just drifting you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.