Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

He who wishes to gain understanding, must first depart from devilish ways.

All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion

Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.

Had I known how sweet they wereI would have saved more of these memories

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.