So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his chest his heart hammers so ha….

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other p….

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserab….

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me..