If you have no passion, you better do something different.

If you are too big to be impacted by your local church, then maybe you are to small to impact the world.

If we would enter God's reality, all the unknown things would become logical.

If you´re not ready to face death, you´re not ready to face life.

Do not change your clothes, change your thoughts.

Be ready to do things, your friends are afraid to do today.

Be the voice, that can be heard without a microphone.

If the stage doesn´t change you, you can change people without being on a stage.

If you can't listen to people, they hardly will follow you.

You don´t need a stage to prove that you´re a bad speaker.

You really don´t need followers to prove that you´re not a leader.

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

Nobody heard anything ahead of time.

Shaw writes as if it were always midday.

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.