Do you believe in love after last sight?

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

Frustration is a function of our expectations.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.