The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Thought is free.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.