My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

All music is beautiful.

You're in a mess, and in excess.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

Ever up and onward.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

When a man has once gained a Reputation not even with God's help can he get rid of it.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

I'm happily married.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

God is everywhere.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.