Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

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I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

I'm going to undress you slowly so I can take in every inch of your perfect body. Holy shit, he played dirty.

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

He was a burning and a shining light.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

My husband is almost as heavy as I am. We were married in adjoining churches.