Trying to second-guess Tegan was like trying to track a tornado. A tornado he had no business chasing.

The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn’t look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion.

She’d die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.

The majority of people on earth are ignorant of what their time should be used for.

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.