Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.