In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

No, but it’s your reality now. Put on your big-boy pants and deal with it.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down. Donald is, and always has been, an amazing leader. Now, he will go to work for you.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

I need yoga every single day.

When I see you, I smile. When I touch you, I feel you. When I kiss you, I love you!

I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.