I used to think timing was everything. I have since learned that now is the time for everything.

Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.

The perfect song neither ends nor begins. It is always playing. Remember to stop and listen.

Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.("Out Of The Deep")

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Take away the cause and the effect ceases.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.