Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Rain is the purest of natural happenings.

(Looking at the tree) Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

Consumers all over the world will be able to flip open their phones and see their favorite Warner Music videos.

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Hard roads are not opened by themselves; they are opened by some brave people!