Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

Profit is vitamin of the body and loss is vitamin of the Soul [The Self]. So where is a loss anywhere?

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath, and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.

As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.