Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. “There it is.” He palmed his chest again and sighed. “All is right in the world again.

A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

I worked because I could control it.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.