Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.