"I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could."

“A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live.”

“Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.”

“I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.”

“Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.”

“My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.”

“The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.”

“There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”

“Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.”