We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ.

He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.