If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I'….

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains..

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose..

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

You can only control what you can control..

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

I live to serve. except the part about living....

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

That's the thing about faith. It works..

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

I tend to stay away from the comics..

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either..

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it..

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince..

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa..

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..