Spiritual matters should be private.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.