In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.
I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.
If we didn't have Nico [Rosberg] and Lewis [Hamilton] in those cars - there's one or two guys down the field who in those cars would have delivered the same.
The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.
I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.
successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.