Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.