Henryk Sienkiewicz

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.