One ought, every day, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. --Pete York

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. --Tom Clancy

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. --Maya Angelou

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. --Pat Conroy, Beach Music

Reading makes immigrants of us all -- it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. --Hazel Rochman, Against Borders

When you write, you lay out a line of words that is a miner’s pick, a woodcarver’s gouge, a surgeon’s probe. You wield it, and it digs a path that you follow. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. --Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Music is the universal language of mankind. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I live for books. --Thomas Jefferson

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. --P.J. O'Rourke

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can. --Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. --Pablo Picasso

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. --Elbert Hubbard

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. --William Styron

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. --