It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.Its own flavor.Its own charm and strange.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

Lambeau was always special, and so was Milwaukee.

It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.