You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

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.

God wants you to meditate, everyone must think

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.

What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.