“It doesn’t matter what you do because it’s going to happen anyway.”
“Games are nature’s most beautiful creation”
“I didn’t want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.”
“The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.”
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
“There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.”
“It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
“I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.”
“Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.”
“You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.”
“Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.”
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
“We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”
“Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it’s after the age of 70 you realize – you begin to actually be convinced – you’re growing older.”
“When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.”
“Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!”
“Love is the only engine of survival”
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me.”
“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”
“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.”
“First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again”
“Love is not a victory march”
“I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don’t make it junk.”
“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.”
“Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”
“Success is survival.”
“It doesn’t matter how anything happens.”
“I’ve always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.”
“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.”
“First of all nothing will happen and a little later, nothing will happen again.”
“Music is the emotional life of most people.”
“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.”
“Do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory.”
“I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.”
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”
“Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.”
“You live your life as if it’s real…….a thousand kisses deep”
“You go your way I’ll go your way too”
“I don’t really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I’d like to come back as my daughter’s dog.”
“Never make a decision when you need to pee.”
“This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.”
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
“Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.”
“It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.”
“Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.”
“When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That’s about all you can do.”
“Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care”
“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.”
“You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That’s a good start… for feeling good.”
“If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.”
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
“It doesn’t matter what you do because it’s going to happen anyway.”
“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”
“You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell”
“As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will”
“Do not be a magician – be magic!”
“The sweetest little song: You go your way I’ll go your way too!”
