people will focus on procedures and not notice anything that isn't just part of the procedures

We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know...what we see is amazingly limited.

There is light in my soul.

Two's a company three's a crowd.

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.