Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

I keep my backstory pretty private and personal.

I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.