Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.