Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

I owe my life to God who set me free from all my sins.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.