It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

When you dance, you don't sweat. You glow.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son.

I love working in the theater.

It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?

There is a form of clean energy, renewable and absolutely free that too often underestimate: human warmth.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.