I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.

Art does not explain.

I promise to keep my hands to myself. I'm too exhausted to make a move on you.

I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

The boy smiled -- mostly at Amy. "Sorry, her heart belongs to Ian Kabra," Dan said, except that something in her expression made him realize her heart didn't belong at all to Ian right now.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.