If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Mentally I can die, Emotionally I can cry, Physically I can sigh, Spirituality I can fly. If I just try.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Words are life. Carefully choose your words.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.