When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

Laughter is a good way to hide pain"- Leo Valdez

A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever.

Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

I like getting toilet paper thrown at me.

I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas.