What is remembered is what becomes reality.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

The price on money is life

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.

Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.