There was a young lady of NigerWho smiled as she rode on a tiger

I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me.

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.