The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

The best revenge is a life well lived.

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.