If it's to be, it's up to me.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.

We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.