A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.