The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

I realized that I could never really function fully on this earth until I understood this: Until you know WHOSE you are, you will never know WHO you are.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.