When grief recedes, grief is like a cloud.

Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

I'm rarely rude except accidentally, and that doesn't really count...

Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.

I've always been known as the fat kid from Stand By Me.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

There was a great sense of community mainly among the women artists at the time because we felt left out. I still know most of the women that I knew then, the ones that are still alive.

Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.

Make the metronome your friend, not your enemy.