poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf

I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't give us all different fingerprints if he wanted us all to be the same. lol -- TAMMY WOOSTER

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

There is eloquence in screaming.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.