So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

Dear women, do not marry until you find your true being, your mission

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.

If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .