...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

Every happy memory created for a child is another treasure of a lifetime.

The universe knows my place in life much better than I do.

Health and an able body are two jewels.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.