The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.

It’s better, really, to go out in a blaze. That’s why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.

It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

If you give yourself a chance to get to know your positive inner-self better, you would never have a need to be someone else.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Persistence is the mother of personal change

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.