I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.Lord help me.

Am I right in thinkin' you've maybe been" - he dropped his voice - "the victim of an infamous outrage by the darkies?

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned."Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face...

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.