Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

But instead of tears, when I press my face against the pillow, a horrible, primal scream comes out of me. It's unlike anything I thought myself capable of. Rage, unlike anything I've ever known.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.