My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

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

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence….

I take things too seriously..

Wanderlust is incurable..

One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch..

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them..

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

The April rain, the April rain, Comes slanting down in fitful showers, Then from the furrow shoots the grain, And banks are fledged with nestling ….

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have..

The bravest are the tenderest..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here..

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'..