I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.

Aint nobody here think we could get no win but us

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.

You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.