Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.

Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

We teach what we need to learn.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!

SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.