Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Loss makes the soul sick

Love is a blend of heart and mind, it creates a euphoric fusion of energy and intellect, to induce a transformation in life as the Rays of Love gradually befall.

Reimagine a way communities can be rebuilt.

Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.