Never be timid about your own pleasure. Don't be ashamed to come.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

The more you know about how things are the less you know about how things could be.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.