I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

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.

...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.

i've heard this called st. peter's square, " arlene said. "but it isn't square. it's oval.

Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.