It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a dissatisfaction that keeps one a step away from sliding into mediocrity.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

Be gentle with the earth.

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.

Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.