ANYONE who cannot come to TERMS with his life while he is ALIVE needs one HAND to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can NOTE down what he sees among the ruins.

If you're not producing as MUCH as you consume, or perhaps a LITTLE more, then CLEARLY we cannot use the big organization of our SOCIETY for the purpose of KEEPING you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

If LINCOLN were ALIVE TODAY, he'd be TURNING over in his GRAVE.

JOURNALISM largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to PEOPLE who never knew that Lord Jones was ALIVE.

I'm one of these PEOPLE that likes adrenaline and new things, LIKE EXTREME sports. It MAKES me feel ALIVE.

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to RECOGNIZE when something's time has passed and be able to MOVE into the NEXT season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a GREAT metaphor for endings.

A MAN is as ALIVE as he can COMMUNICATE.

To my ears, jazz SOUNDS better in WARM weather and after the SUN has GONE down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them COME alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

Every KID has a toy that they believe is their BEST friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy HORSE or CAR or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

My AUNT Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her FEET. When I moved to Los Angeles from NEW York City in 1974 for 'Happy DAYS,' I took a CUTTING with me.

EVERY acorn on the GROUND is just as ALIVE as the three-hundred-year-old oak TREE that towers over it.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always FELT like, until you BUY the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro ROMANTIC thing from the past. It is STILL ALIVE.

You live till you DIE, and that's the end of it. What GOOD is your legacy when you are dead? I WORRY about being alive, selling work, having fun, MOVING and doing things when I am alive.

Art is about profundity. It's about CONNECTING to everything that it MEANS to be ALIVE, but you have to act.

My baseline FUNCTION is I'm usually really HAPPY and OPTIMISTIC. I think I really genuinely like being ALIVE, and I've got a spring in my STEP - that's what I've been like all my life.