The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

I was not crying - eyes water. I think we all know I'm a badass and I don't cry. - Caleb

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

The Spirit of God is not something less than God, - it is God.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

Honestly, I'm not an extravagant person, I don't spend a lot of money.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.