To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

The media ought to be just giving a fair shake to everybody.