I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists. . . but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.
Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind
I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway. They either like me or they don't, you know what I mean? I am too long in the tooth to worry about that.
Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.