It might be just some trend that came and went, ' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

She always wanted to believe in things.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.