I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go.

Yielding, like ice about to melt.

Stable growth ensures employment.

No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.