Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

The best thing about being rich is the freedom freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.