"When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people."

“Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.”

“We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.”

“I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.”

Source : Theobald Wolfe Tone, T. W. Moody, R.B. McDowell, C. J. Woods (2007). “The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798)”, p.391, Oxford University Press

“I want to make them [American Indians] live forever. It's such a big dream I can't see it all.”

“This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

“Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.”

“Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.”

“Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.”

Source : Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.108, Random House