The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

I tend the wounded, /and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you, come home.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

Changing would not give me the best chance to win. I need to have fun. I need to attack.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

My forte is awkwardness.