Let's be healthy big people. Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy.

The Oscars are not something I watch anyway.

The important part of dreaming is what you do when you wake up.

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things.

Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.