My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Learning the way of grace is about truth. It’s reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others’ infinite value—despite our depths ofbrokenness.

The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.

I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist.

You never know how much you can grow.

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.