You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

.. And then he remembered that darkness was his best friend and it will always be.

...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in which we face them that constitutes our comfort.

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction-I've worked hard for them!

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an apostle of big government.

If you want a friend, feed any animal.