If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.