I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

Free is a man who has no desires.

Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

There is no gap between art and politics.

Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.

If you can affect someone when they're young, you are in their heart forever.

Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.