I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

There will be no transportation problems in Heaven-you can either glide along, float along or fly!

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.