The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, even those who aren't helping us directly.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn't possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.

We've all got our own brand of crazy.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

It is easy to rule over the good.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.