Van Gogh couldn't have painted the stars in your eyes.

Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.

All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion.

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

Walk by faith. God will open the way. When there is no way, He will open the way.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

Justice always has context.

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.