I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace