I love insult, it's always honest.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

He who neglects the true Sovereign God neglects his own true authority and freedom!

As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.