Man's security comes from within himself.
I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
I think you create your own hipness.
For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.
I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.
It is easier to speak about revival than to set about it.