To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Survival is a four letter word.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.

A picture is like a prayer.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

Use #‎ meditation as a tool to get quiet.