Life is a battle, so do not give up fighting.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

You stole a boat,” she snapped. “What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic?

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

Truth is child of Time.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.