A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
Words at night were feral things.
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.
I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that’s been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom.
Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough
As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.
Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.
Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.