If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

You may be a good warrior... But you've made a mistake I never did. You agreed to serve a stupid king.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

Sometimes it's not that two people aren't right for each other, its more like the timing wasn't right.

Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.