She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

What's on the inside, beneath that sugar? Is it a bug? Is it a booger?

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other.