In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

I want a girl who respects herself. It means her standards are high and if I fit them then id be honored. If she's easy then what does that say about me?

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.