I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

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.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

Rise, Luthiel, in the name of love you came and in the name of love I crown you!

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.

nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes

My mother had me sort the eyes

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.