"I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything."

“I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.”

Source : America Online Interview, steelydanreader.com. November 17, 1994.

“I'm gut all the way, which is why I think I'm so connected to shows like Falling Water and even The Walking Dead, which is all about the mortal consequences of our actions. Generally, we act first and realize the consequences later.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

“Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.214, Springer Science & Business Media

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

“The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their child to be murdered, their sense for the sacredness of maternity. Abortion not only murders the innocent; it spiritually murders women... the wound created in their souls is so great that only God's grace can heal it. The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.”

“People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.”

“The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.”