We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?

All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.