Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.

Pray, read and mediate on the Scripture. These spiritual deeds are the greatest acts to self-development

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My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.

I’m the Renee Zellweger now. Jewel is the me now. There is no more Jewel.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

I'm of the opinion that you go where you're wanted.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.