"What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down."

-- Denis Johnson

#Jesus Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.”
“My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.”
“Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.”
“Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.”
“Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.”
“If you're a guild, treat your comrades right. That's all I wanted to say.”
“As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.”
“The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.”

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