To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.