Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

Love is a gift. Passion is a curse

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

Everybody in life is a chameleon.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

I would love to be friends with Kanye West, because I know he is not a dreadful person, he is a lovely person and I think he is misunderstood.