Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

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.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

In winter, some voices are like coats.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

The whole damned country was depending on me.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.