Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

I may not be the prettiest butterfly in the garden to seek but, I am still there with my wings.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

...the change was adjustment without improvement.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.