I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Don't believe everything you hear today

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.

I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

He looked like the king of muscle beach and he was a surfer. But he had vision. He believed that for a city to be great, it had to have a great newspaper.