All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

A New Year, all things new!

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.