Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

Every heart is made of stories.

There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.