After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

If you would judge, understand.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.