The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.

Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.

For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Personality begins where comparison ends.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.