That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

Macy: “In Truth, ” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”Wes: “How do you win?” he askedMacy: “That, ” I said, “is such a boy question.

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.