He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him, or her) you fall in love so hard, so fast, that your soul is pulled out through your eyes. I like that story.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

It's easier to believe in aliens than in gods.