The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.

There’s a dream in thespace between the hammer and the nail: the dream ofabout-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail willtake the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever.

Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.