There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

You can't write if you can't relate.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

He who labours, prays.

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.