For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Life is the game that must be played.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

An emotional debt is hard to square.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is.

If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.