Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

I am safe and secured in the Lord.

Let your need draw you closer to your Creator.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?