Frustration... when our happiness or sadness looses control. The blissful intensity of sensations, the disappointing realisation that dissatisfaction is not enough.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.