As a species we're fundamentally insane.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.