I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...

Life is about giving yourself away in the service of others. Life is not about living just to live.

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.