I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Religiöse Menschen haben Rechte, Religionen nicht.

Open the door and close the heaven, because we stay here on earth.Jan Jansne

I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel.

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.