Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.

Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?

There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.

To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.