I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

We like something because someone else liked it.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

In the sacred season, we shall harvest the ripen fruit.

Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

When the Lord's request comes, will remove all other demands.

As long as you're actively trying to achieve your goals your successes are rewards and your short comings are lessons learned

There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.