The long sadness of winter was finally in retreat.

Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.