I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

We need one another. There's no reason to judge. People are more fragile than you could possibly imagine.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

The music is huge. I consider it a privilege to do what I do, turn people on to music and tell them about issues.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.