Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I don't know who it was, but someone said that careful attention paid to anything is a window into the universe. Pausing to think this way, even for a brief moment, is very important. It gives quality to my day.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.