There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?''I'm looking now.

When we're together, " he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.