I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!

Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.

Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.

Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.