I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Record the album after the tour.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior!

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.

The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.