The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school Id try to read my lessons and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

If You Stop Struggling Then You Stop Life

In every ancient culture there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

I'm very comfortable, of course, just with my family.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

In the end, all or nothing will matter

I don't see myself as the next Carmen Dell'Orefice. I'd rather be fat and happy, sitting on a beach in Hawaii eating pizza.

We must be willing to let go of the life weve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.

Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.