Every Mistake Teach Us a Lesson

Once taken by her, you glowedAnd you drank her poisons, content. Because all the stars seemed to grow, And fields had a different scent, Autumn fields.

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

I bought a dog the other day. . . . I named him Stay. It's fun to call him. . . . "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.

I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.