It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

The world is crammed with messages. We’ll never have time to read them all.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

You write poems with your fingertipsAnd I keep listening to the songs written on my skinBy some distant dream, similar wordsBut the verses never meet...

For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!

She swallowed, her eyes dropping to his lips. And he knew she felt it too.

It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.

Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.