My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.

It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

All you really have...is now.

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.

Practice being the kind of person you wish to attract.