Occupation: Author Birth: August 1, 1939 Death: March 10, 2017
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life..
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them..
Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge..
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than eve….
An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually..
For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when….
One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone..
I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has….
The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song..
It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it..
The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who ….
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces..
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live..
This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling f….
Life is never easy for those who dream..
The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars bet….
We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity..
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies..
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!.
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The marke….
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met,….