Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

Maintenance and resupply are the backbone of any military.

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

If you give me wings I will soar for you Even if this whole land Sinks down to the water If you give me a sword I will fight for you Even if this whole sky Shoots through with your light