She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

The e-mails show the reporters collaborate and conspire directly with the [Hillary] Clinton campaign on helping her win the election all over.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

I hate waking up every morning to my alarm. I always bang my head on the steering wheel.

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.