There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The light is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you.

Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says.

Time is funny lately, nothing to do with clocks.

She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

Obviously in the close-ups we bring extras around or we do it later, but them running in and the big shots, they don't know. They're just coming out.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.