A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

Everything counts! Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up or takes away.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

There's a lot of things we could do better.

Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.