Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

The purpose of dreaming isn't to dream forever, but to wake up from it.

Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.