"It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore"

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness"

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool"

"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity"

"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die"

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"