I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one is winning.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.

When the mind is peaceful, hearts will bloom with love.

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.

If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.

I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.