He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

If you're not a successful artist it's your fault.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.