Every time you play you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

I loved him as we always love for the first time

Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil."Richard: "Good will triumph over evil."Ellie: "Liar.

The greatest evidence of what is inside of a seed is its fruit.

Stars grounded her. Their distance offered perspective when she couldn't see beyond her own pain

I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Drink to me! I just realized that I've slept with everyone at this table! ~Nell

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.