What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

I will be an artist or nothing!

There’s surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be.

Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on

Only someone wishing to disappear would ever strive to 'fit in'.

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.