Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.

Freedom is the most valuable asset anyone can ever acquire in life”.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no. I've got to remain positive, I'm going to fight this negativity!

As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.