Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.

A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

It’s probably better and more accessible to measure change readiness rather than change progress.

Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.