She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.

Marriage is like a fingerprint. Everyone's is different.

One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.

I wish i could feed my soul just like i feed my hunger.

Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.