Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.

She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained.

My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

I think it would be great for football in Britain if Pep Guardiola wins leagues and dominates for a while with the way he likes to play and the players he'll bring in.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.

It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.