Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered.Dr. Joseph Murphy

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

There is no paradox. There is only irony.

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.