Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

One man gathers what another man spills

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

Sometimes we live no particular way but our own

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.

Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.