Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

The species greatest harvest ― words.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

And grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away, and the person so real, so beloved, becomes a dim, slightly out-of-focus shadow.

Home is not as much about a place you belong, as people you belong to.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and fun That's July Four July Five, the fun is done The fireworks are no more

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

I have a short attention span.