I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.

They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Gossip till the cows come home.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.