Trust your heart, especially when it is a strong one.
The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.
There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.
Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take. . . I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.
President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks. . . when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.