You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.