But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

Beauty is often worse than wine intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

If there are things saying wrong about Sam Allardyce, believe you me, I will be fighting them.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.