The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.
My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.
It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.
At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.
I don't know much, but I know I love you. . . that may be all there is to know.
Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this seem possible. But isn't that an idea of only minor importance? Doesn't every human being, no matter which era he lives in, always have to reckon with being accountable to God at any moment? Can I know whether I'll be alive tomorrow morning? A bomb could destroy all of us tonight. And then my guilt would not be one bit less than if I perished together with the arth and the stars.
I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
Self-deception helps us deceive.
I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.