Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.

Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.

But with morning cool repentance came.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.