After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.

The Lies, are so many, that eyes are getting blind.

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!