The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.

The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

I don't tend to spend the whole day in the personality of the person I'm playing.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to