I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

One must always forgive another's passion.

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

I was born in the age of "alas".

You might want to lie down, " Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

The real funny thing is, whether the demons exist or not at all in your life, it's nothing to do whether you believe or not to one, none nor both of them.

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

It doesn't matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship [of Hawaii]. Either one is already in the kingdom.

The best way to win a game is not to lose it.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.