time never heals everything in life, but memories do

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

You can reach higher heights by faith.

I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.

It is only when your actionsand words are aligned that youcan achieve your true potential.

I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

You are bound to pick up influences.

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.