"People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic."

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

“We would love to have Gary down here. He's still tenacious on defense, and I know he still wants [a title]. And I'm the only guy in the world who can get him one.”

“I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.”

Source : "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

“You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.”

Source : Jack D. Schwager (1992). “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

“Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”

“I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.”

Source : Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”

“Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.”