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In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
Neither Neil Armstrong nor Michael Collins had a mental breakdown after returning from the moon.
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.
Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.
The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.
To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.
The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.
If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.
How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.
Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.