It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.

I think President Trump is trying to distract the country away from the failures he's had - the inability to get a health care bill that both sides could come together on.

Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.