It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.