Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

Don’t tell me you have OCD about this?”“OCD, ADHD—pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I’d have it.

Lightly, lightly, very lightly, A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

The only vision (many) of you have is television.

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.