If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths

‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.