What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

Never let reality get in the way of truth

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

Be the ocean let the river come to you.

God bless my soul.

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.

Good economics is good politics.

Some people would say we're already under attack by aliens - not space aliens, but illegal aliens.

From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.