The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival.

Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

That's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new.