Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.