There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.