I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

Nothing cures like time and love.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism moderated by assassination.

A business that is not growing after all, is dying.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, how many people know about this?

If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

You have good days and bad days.