Let it rain on some days, Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?

I wish not to tell you how I feelI choose silence so that you leaveKiss me goodbye and set me free

I wish not to tell you how I feel, I choose silence so that you leave, Kiss me goodbye and set me free...

I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...

My maid never sweeps under the bed so I asked her to do so today. Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago.

There is no window to look outside.There is no window to look within.Open the doors.

Rule #1 of Traveling-Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?

A fleeting second on someone's news feed, No dearth of meanings for those who read, Not my stories but 'tis what I think, I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the Spirit of Our Lord and more apt to win hearts.