The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
Roger Waters isn't a "great" singer but he's always able to communicate this intense desperation. At times he's not even singing, but shouting. There's no melody and his shouting isn't even in key with the song.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.
Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.