Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

I don't like you, but I love you.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.