In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

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!

She didn’t sound overjoyed. She didn’t sound even slightly joyed.

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

Listen. Don't just wait to talk.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Ive learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.