Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

Good is the mora that makes all sure.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

When I'm in the studio I just try to zone out and not think of whatever is in the industry, if it sounds too much like someone else, I have a tendency to erase it.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Sleeping is the height of genius