Freedom is not a license for chaos.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

I am sick as a horse.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

For whatever you live is life.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.