The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.