I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.

Progress not perfection.

Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'