We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

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.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

what if I fall? oh, my darling, but if you fly?

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.