You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

She always wanted to believe in things.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

It might be just some trend that came and went, ' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we're in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it's possible to be in love.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

Poetry lit fire in the vast forest of memories within you.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

Free as a bird to settle where I will.