“My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.”

“People don't always need a name.”

“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.”

“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rocklike a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack itand you might get either your first glimpse of ...”

“Thousands of cars and a million guitarsScreaming with power in the air!We've found the place where the decibels raceThis army of rock will be thereTo ram it downRam it down!Straight to the heart of...”

“Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down”

“The world has a way of dragging down our mood.”

“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tigers wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the ot...”

“Graceful. Lean. Coordinated as she whirls, though how she knows what dancing is, [her grandfather] could never guess.The song plays on. He lets it go too long. The antenna is still up, probably dim...”

“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the o...”