I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.