Always at the heart of my life there has been fire.

The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight

Her spirit is all spit and fire

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.