You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

I always felt an outsider.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.