“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist real”

“The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.”

“Here's a new 'Blessing' for our ti”

“I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?”

“Every story needs to be worth telling.”

“Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!”

“It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c”

“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”

“Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.”

“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”

“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.”