I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

Anywhere you can take Jesus Christ with you is all right to go.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

I joined Arsenal to play with Robin van persie - not replace him

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.