The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen.

Camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.

Music is love.

In the end we're all miserable. It's a human condition.

You either bend, or you break. Suppress your ego to stay happy.

I sentimenti si imprimono nei luoghi dove li abbiamo vissuti.

Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on