The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

Home teaching is an excellent preparation for missionary service.

Illusions can appear real but we get to choose whether or not to buy into them.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

No, because I've never really changed my style that much.

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

Posing nude is not making porn.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Photography is an accident.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.