I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep