Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.

I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.