One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men.

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

You be really careful.” – Sundown “Always. You have to be careful when you fly, or you end up smeared on the side of a building.” – Ren