Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Personal experience is the slowest way of learning. Combine your personal experience with other people’s experiences.

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

Speak politely to an enraged dragon.

If you fall from here, if you're not dead you're gonna wish you were.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.