God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...

[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

No one can pray and worry at the same time.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.