Unconditional gratitude is a powerful activity allowing ourselves to be grateful for whatever happens in our life.

Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.