But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.