Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.

The main thing is to keep THE MAIN THING the main thing

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

We know more than we can tell.

If you want to win forever, you've got to ALWAYS COMPETE.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.