Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.