The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.-Rick Ridgeway

Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.

Your salvation is a free gift, made possible only because God planned it . . .Christ paid for it . . . and the Holy Spirit assures you of it.

Obviously it's difficult not to compare one record success-wise, or sales-wise, or whatever, but I think you're always going to have moments - whatever record you've got - of insecurity.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.