Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

Life is a sacred-spirit.

Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

Let no one turn you down because you are young.

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone.

We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.