Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Kisses were better than potions.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.