The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.

People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.