Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.

You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.