I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden and I go 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

A thing is worth what it can do for you not what you choose to pay for it.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk everything.

I read good. I was an English major.

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