America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.

Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

There are several paths to success

Life may look to be made up of incredible coincidences. One problem. I don’t believe in coincidences. I believe in twists of fate.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

I always read the papers, the political bits.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.