Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Money can cloud your vision. Sometimes, God takes away the money and uses times of adversity to refine us like gold.

January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

No flower wants to be at home when it is raining outside!

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.