It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning

I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.

There are those who struggle every day with challenges. Let us extend to them our concern, as well as a helping hand. As we care for each other, we will be blessed.