I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.

Of all the stories I have read about heroes, and all that I could ever read, of one thing I'm certain-he is mine.

The Womb of a Virtuous Woman produces a Wonder boy that grows to be a Real Man

Darkness is an uncomfortable place, but that is where stars are made.

Laughter gurgled up from inside her. She'd just mugged a mugger. Look out, world.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody, ' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.

I care about writing music and playing my music.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's punk.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.