Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned.

Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

My secret is I cannot go to bed, I cannot sleep, if my bed is not made before I go to bed. I can leave it unmade in the morning, but I have to remake it before I get into it to sleep.

Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.