Joy is in the ears that hear.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

Success doesn't come to procrastinators, but only to men of action

Samantha, you're in my world now. We have standards here."-Jesse

A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.