"I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive."

“I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.”

“Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."”

“The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.”

“Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.”

“One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.”

Source : Edward Dorn, Joseph Richey (2007). “Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes”, p.41, University of Michigan Press

“I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things”

“Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.”

Source : "Million-plus expected for Phillies parade" by Jennifer Lin, Allison Steele and Dwight Ott, www.philly.com. October 30, 2008.

“The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do not claim that the reproducible by itself is more important than the unique. But I do claim that the unique exceeds the treatment by scientific method. Indeed it is the aim of this method to find and test natural laws...”