Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

When you have an idea about something, let begin to work on it to bring it to life

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

We need a doer, not a talker.

Give me a chance to be your president and America will be safer and stronger and better.

I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.