Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it's never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.