To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.

Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

There is an emptiness in my soul that only you can fill up!

There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.

Information and complexity go hand in hand.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.