A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn’t think it was very good for my life.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.