The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.

One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.

That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.

We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought, And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong.

The worship of God should be done without expecting anything in return

The game itself is bigger than the winning.

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

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.