There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

They love me like a pack of wolves.Ernest

Desire to know God.

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of their dysfunction because it serves a purpose.

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that.