Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

The price of living seems to always be death.

Success is a blessing

I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

I grieve for every death.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.