Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.

Now whenever I left class to go to the boys' room, I worried that I would end up on the blue tiled floor in a puddle of piss and blood.

Obedience requires knowing God’s word, His expectations and then actually living them out.

I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.

The beauty in the death that awaits us, I find a timeless beauty in that.

The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965].

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

The world we live in is but thickened light.

It's always marketeers building their own careers.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.