Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that. So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song. The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories. Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk. There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world. The point is to solve problems, not point fingers. Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do. The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love. It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties. Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process. I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days. When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs. I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong. I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.