There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

A lot went wrong before I ended up in a great place!

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.