Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

I haven't gone home with anybody who tried to pick me up in a long time.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.