Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.

There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.

I wondered: if I was so hell-bent on chaos, why would I adopt a military rank? Perhaps there was a part of me that needed rules, needed regulations and order.

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

We have to name a problem to solve a problem.