I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate.

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

You can't rely just on talent to win.

I dont want to be easily defined.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.