We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.