There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.

Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick." Until it broke.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

There is no such thing as a hate crime.

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.