If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

A world without heroes is only a world with either mere men or men with wit and courage who never had the courage to take steps that could write great and amazing stories of life!

Success is always the outcome of walking the talk.

A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

You have to drink when it's hard dealing with things when you're sober.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.