The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

Keep your eye on the main event.

I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.

The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.