I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

God, I don't love much but I love words.

Speaking my mind has never been a challenge for me

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

Don't think of cost. Think of value.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.