You have not traveled enough, " she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.

Play to win, not "not to lose".

Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in the mirror. I want so, so I will.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.