The dead tread softly... And those stalking the living tread even more lightly.

Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!""You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome,

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

Deliver total quality to every customer every day.

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

I think that the music we create together is one of a kind.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.