Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience.

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.