Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

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 true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

One mans cult is another mans religion.

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.