Could a being create the fifty billion galaxieseach with two hundred billion starsthen rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

Jesus did not dispute [Satan] . . . our Lord quoted Scripture, and that’s one thing the devil can’t stand! The Scripture defeats him every time.

Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.

Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Most people don't believe in themselves.

Inspiration is cross-pollinating.

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.