"Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it."

"I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming."

"I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth."

"If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas."

"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows joy is found not in possessing, but in appreciating."