Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

The only way the journey ends is if you stop moving.

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

It feels wonderful when you fly with hopes and dreams.

Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.