It's rare to see both those qualities in one individual, ... She was strategic and a big thinker, but when you asked her to do something, you never worried about the tactics or the details.

The one big strategic error -- which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions -- was the prescription drug bill.

This is one of the few choices left for us. It's rare for a government agency to go out of business but it's the best option left for us.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.