Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.

By [Christ’s] resurrection life, He gives us the power over the tendency to sin as we allow Him to control our lives.

He raised his wine for a toast. “To the Exquisite Nightmare.

As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

I am immortal until God's work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.