A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.

Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn’t I knew what I preferred, and that was—I didn’t want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

Christ in me is the hope of glory

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live.

Winners win in life because they win the battle in their mind first!

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.