It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

What you love is longing for you.

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.