I read like everybody - like every other writer.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I was in love again. I was in trouble

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.