Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.