Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives. ”

I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens. ”

My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've represented books that have been sold for very little money and gone on to great glory, and I've seen books sold for an enormous amount of money published to very little response. ”

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness. ”

I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in. ”

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal. ”

Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going. ”

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet. ”

There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me. ”

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live. ”