There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

The food on the plane was fit for a king. "Here, King!"

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.