It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Eternal life truly begins the moment you’re born again. It’s a present tense—not future tense—reality. If you’re a believer, eternal life is now!

God does not deal with denomination, He deals with nomination and conformation for a higher life.

A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

Los Angeles has been good to me.

If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.