The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.
Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin
Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.
Not everything in church is truth. . . And not all truth turns up in church.
Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.
Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.
Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success. . . too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
You know why they say that, that models are too skinny? Because parents are horrible, they can't tell their sixteen year old daughter she's not really a princess, well guess what, I can.
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!