Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. —Jenna Richards