The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Life is the game that must be played.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and dived deeply into her ocean of love and that's how I saved my soul!

Except I was hoping someday to see you standing on a ship's deck in your shirtsleeves with a cutlass between your teeth.""Maybe it can be arranged

You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

The New York Times distorts and defrauds the news and then claims to be impartial. They never give an even-handed version of the news - that's the last thing they'd ever do.

When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open.

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.