The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.