I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it forever.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You dont have to throw the past away.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

Man can not live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

I hate musicals, especially film musicals.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.

I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream a cold clear night made brilliant by a glorious star the smell of incense shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby the incarnation of perfect love.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

The Scriptures are the truth from God.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years, while he's been on the Court of Appeals.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.