It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
