What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad.
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
I've written about one song on several different albums.