The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

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.

You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.

Living with you will be likeaiming for a moving target

DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.

Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

If they break your heart, break their bones

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

Music will always be my greatest passion.