Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

I came into the world at the right time.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

and love was lightning and remembrance

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

Great artists suffer for the people.

I think I ended up on 'People”s '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.