Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.

I loved you...I loved you more than all the money your father threw at me.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.

When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.