Solomon smiles with us

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers

I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.

Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.

The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.

He could, Andi."Andi's heart turned to ice.It wasn't possible.He was dead, cast away into some deep, dark hell where he'd never be able to claw his way back out.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.