Savour your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell, I would die that much closer to home.

Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.

We all have our own personal Andes.

We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible—play well or die—but we didn’t even know the ground rules.

Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

We all have our personal Andes.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am at times - I push myself to be better, constantly.

No artist tolerates reality.

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.