Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Joseph Campbell

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Stephen King

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Thomas Sowell

Most Americans who read at all read junk... I think it is a fair generalization to say that European readers of fiction like novels to be challenging, to be demanding; nor do they follow trends or fashions in reading taste in the lemminglike manner of many readers in the United States.

John Irving

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Shana Alexander

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Eric Hoffer

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Thomas Otway

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

J.K. Rowling

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

Helmut Walcha

In dreams begins responsibility.

William Butler Yeats