A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

When you open your heart to someone, you're also exposing it to pain.

The land is in the bones. The earth will be packed with sinful souls. And there will still walk a body that will not be willing to change for the better.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.

I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up.

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.

I need one good honky tonk angel to turn my life around.