I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.

It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.

With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.

When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.

The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.