The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

I don't think you can spend yourself rich.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.

I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If I have a choice to stand in line to get x-rayed, or see scenery, I'll take scenery.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.