If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well

It's not how much you make, it's how much you save.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.

The trumpet is forceful.

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.