Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

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.

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

It's a weird age. They're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still don't know whether to be like, 'Congratulations,' or 'Do you need a ride?

I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.