I like to think I'm some savage realist.
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
If you start praising your wife, if you start telling her how beautiful she is, and how glad you are to have her in your life, when you talk about the good, you will draw out the good. If you talk about the negative, you'll draw out the negative. It's up to you.
Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.