My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.

The "self, " it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.