Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Your busyness cannot stop God's business to save his children.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.'

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my level get to go to the next level after that. I think it is the songs that can take you there.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.