Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blueFarragut will ever stand, alma mater true

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

There are no silver bullets.

I love Queen. Not all of it. Some of it, I can't get into. But "Don't Stop Me Now" is a pretty hilarious song. It's a good pick-me-up in the car.

To have more, you must first be more.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

I've heard the rumors but you won't come clean. I guess I'm hoping it's because of me.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.