Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.

It is naught it is naught saith the buyer. But when he is gone his way then he boasteth.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

I washed mud off of mud.

Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.