the cocoon like water, the labored trance and rhythmic breath of lap swimming had done their work, had unwound the restless feeling into nothingness.

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.