I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death.

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

The potential that every person has is not his possession

As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the mathematics of rhythm. I try to apply this mathematical thinking to my playing.

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.