“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.”

“I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.”

“I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.”

“The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel good. Four billion people don't have to see or hear it. If I've enjoyed the process of creation and I'm at peace, ...”

“When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.”

“'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the...”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That's when the negative stuff will try...”

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”