Sadness wasn't a disease you could catch, as far as I know, but from what I seen, people treated it like it was.

No matter how hard it is to see kid tears, grown-up tears are worse to watch.

Words got the power to hurt or heal.

Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.

Every spell is a journey.

You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed through veils. How else can it be seen?

Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

Just go to [Hillary Clinton] website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don't think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.