Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.

We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.

Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Take away the Big Bang and what has God done? Burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great, he's a high school junior.