To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish!

The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"