I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

You are better than you think.