My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

I wiggle my eyebrows. 'Sorry, Evan, I can't make out with you wile the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.

Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.

I'm just excited to be a part of the movie [Star Wars]. It's always the particulars that are the most exciting.

The more patient we are, the closer the Iranians get to a nuclear weapon.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.