Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

It Is What It Is

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.