Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting for a comforting glimpse of shore.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.