Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.
Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exciting is the idea that we're all experiencing something that's bigger than us.
If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.
I used to be so young, how did I get so old?
I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.
Sold my soul to the devil for nice penmanship. Now I write real pretty but I'm starting to regret it.
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.
What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.
Wine is connected to abundance.