There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.

[My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand.

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.