I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Be a poet in action as well as in words.

All of us in the church need “grace-healed eyes” to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

My dad was my hero, my best friend.

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.