I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

He lies down next to me.He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/''Well, don't die, ' I say, "we just met.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

Children are the world's most valuable resource.

We all could be great, but we have to be open our mind to the way in which we could.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.