Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

I have to live if I want to be remembered.

Fear less hope more eat less chew more whine less breathe more talk less say more love more and all good things will be yours.

I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world