Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

I kind of wish they’d shut up,” Jack said. “Dude, true dat,” Lend answered. Jack nodded solemnly. “For serious.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.