The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.