You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.