It never occurred to me to say no.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it.

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occa

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

Man lives by imagination.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.