It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation.

To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202)

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

Everyone in football knows what John Terry's like off the field

Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

People first. Dogs second. Things last.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?