Life

They run, they touch, they learn, they play, They listen, they work hard at growing all day.

Please hear me, you are not alone on this planet hurtling through space, solitude is an illusion, come let me help you, rise up, walk forward, walk tall, walk straight, let nothing stop you.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a headache since you arrived but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

Do not just exist, be fully awake.

...The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.

If it rains during sunshine, don't worry; you'll see your rainbow.

Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.

You are allowed to float around having no damned idea what you want to do with yourself with no actual time frame in which you need to figure it out.

What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!

One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

Greg: Scott, great horde.My realization was that I could never *actually* live a life where I had to be constantly doing things like praising a dude's horde.So that made me feel better about myself.

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That’s why the best ones are the most tragic.