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

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.

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.

We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

Hillary Clinton doesn't have the energy to do anything.

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

Dream big, talk big, and turn your faith loose!

I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?