Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Never show your weakness before adversary.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.

Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.