How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

You do not see the painting in the attic The maggots on skin that tear. The beauty is a trick. Narcissus - promise naught but air...'' ~ Dorian Gray

Mercy and cowardice are the same, " she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

I am the only consistent person in my life and so I better like myself, and I better love myself. And I really better know that I'm as beautiful as anyone else.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

Emotion constantly finds expression in bodily position.

Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it...

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.