If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

I cherished my time playing high school sports.

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!