Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

I love playing the melodic stuff. I love adding textures and colors.

Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.

Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.