the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

I love you like the devil loves his pitchfork. I love you like the angel loves his wings. I love you from here to heaven, through hell and back again.

Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.