To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Everything is out there. That's why they call it everything.

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.

I want kids who are going to go out there and compete, lay it all on the table. I think the big thing about this game is you have to care a lot about it.

It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,'