The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

There is no easy way to do a deadlift—not involving actually picking up the bar—which explains their lack of popularity in gyms around the world.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.