The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Having appeared at the end of the first creation, man [and women] stand at the beginning of the second, since the world is transfigured through [them].

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

Nine months of misery.

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.