She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the Earth, rather than touching the Earth, touching ground.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?

There is no learning without remembering.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.