Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

My vibe was to just move forward at a really cool pace.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.