In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.