EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.