Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

In this world, no word is being uselessly spoken.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.

Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.