It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, a….

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, ….

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a cast….

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and….

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away..

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction..

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation..

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you..

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic..

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it..

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye..

The presence of God is the finest of rewards..

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and h….

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts..

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar..

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It ….

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names..

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediate….

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God ….

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also per….

I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it….