The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.

If it feels nice, just throw the dice.

One declaims endlessly against the passions

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.