Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

I am moving towards being vegan. When I crack an egg now, I look and think could that have become a baby

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.