Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.