Good deeds may not lead to heaven...still do deeds that make you feel like you are in there already.

The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease.Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.

The man who has never been disappointed has never understood happiness, the man who has never been anxious has never learned patience, the man who has never been depressed will never know ecstasy.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

Is that it?”“No. That’s a wall.”“It could be disguised.”“You’re not very good at looking for things, are you?”“I’m good at looking for walls. Look, I found another one.

My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

Healthcare system is broken without lifetime employment.

It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.