Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true

Do the things that you always wanted to, without me there to hold you back, don't think just do, more than anything I want to see you go, take a glorious bite out of the whole world

I'm miles from where you areI lay down on the cold groundAnd I, I pray that something picks me upAnd sets me down in your warm arms.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

I don't really memorize every little thing I have to do because then I start to think about it too much! I like to keep it in the here and now and not what's coming up.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point.

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience