People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

A dream is a distant reality.

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover... for the first time, the things I have learned... over and over again all my life.

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

Leaving his country for his country's sake.

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.