"'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once."

"At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive."

"Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene."

"What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day."

"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."

"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."

"I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that character is forged in the fires of discipline."