I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.

It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.