How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

In the long run one gets used to anything.

The Philosopher's Stone was called Silence.

I look at her and I see my future...and it looks glorious.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.