When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.

Is this an ego high or a peaceful high?

Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.

Without setbacks there'd be no comebacks, and everyone loves a come.

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?

I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.