History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

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?

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

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.

There is no communication with God without communication with God’s people

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people.

Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

When did the government become our psycho ex-girlfriend

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.