Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5...she was 15.

Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.