Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Awake my great soul.Awake my great spirit.Awake my great strength.

Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ."— Guillaume ApollinairetFrench poet

Jealousy is like wood ants, it will nibble away, until there's nothing left.

Take not counsel of your fears

A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?