It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.

Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people.

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

I’m one of those moms who’s at the bus stop with my camcorder every year, with my phone taking a million pictures as they get on the bus.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.