One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Silence is its own kind of tension.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.

I marched to the head Elf. “Where’s the frog?

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.

Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.