Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.