One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

Humans are beasts, until tamed.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.