“Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you
Julia.”

“When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.”

“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”

“I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.”

“Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.”

“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman — that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.”

“I've learned never to say never. You just don't know. But I've reached an age when you start taking it easier. But I enjoy singing. I still sing – at home.”

“Oh, rejoice, the Cleansing of my lips… rejoice, Salvation of my soul!
I still have a thousand half-loves… oh, my God!
I want to shoot myself just thinking about it!
And you think I don't mean what I say?”

“I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive… and open to growth”

“When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.”