If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

Ya gotta think positive.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.

Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.