People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.