The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.

Sometimesyou meet people and know immediatelythat they were meant to be your friend.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos?

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.