When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.

Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.

A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.