To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.

It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?

i know for sure, to be a leader i have to be a good reader

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.