Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.

You can be in love with solitude

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.