I am ignorant and that's why I'm happy!

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.

We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.

If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

You were beautifully and wonderfully created with the skin of diamonds, so if you do break, you are still valuable.

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.