..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

We need to own problems - but we can't own them all!

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.