For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.

The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.

If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

from a child in danger to a dangerous child

belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

Names govern the world.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?

Big government flourishes under Republicans.