I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.