Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.

Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

Books are embalmed minds.

I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.

Everything we do is based at adults.

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.