If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

Then I shall bid thee goodnight, my dear. Sweet pixies watch over the dusty moonlight of your dreams, Jessameine.

Never complain

Patience will be on our side.” “I once heard that patience is a vulture in wait to take out its prey when all seems safe.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

When one door opens, so does another one.

I didn't really want to be a celebrity. It just kind of happened to me.

My diet plan. 8am to 12noon: only fruits and fruit juice. Noon to 8pm: vegetarian meals. From 8pm to 8am the kitchen is CLOSED.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.

I don't know how exactly but I'm maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily basis. Because it means that I'm still not jaded.