I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

This long disease, my life.

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.

A good heart cannot lye

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone...it's forever.