...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful, " it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And 'perfect love casteth out all fear'.

Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie.

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.