Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.