To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
All dread those things they don't understand.
. . . a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.
I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.
One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke. ' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin. ' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.