A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

It’s better, really, to go out in a blaze. That’s why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.

It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

I'll find my own way, when I was no longer able to survive. and when I knew that's where I can get up turning point

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

If God is in everything, why shouldn't you taste Him when you eat?

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

Yeah I got game like Stuart Scott...fresh out the ESPN shop

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.