Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

The Earth must have done some noble work

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.

There are moments when I think, Everyone is evil!

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.