"Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted."

“Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.”

“Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.”

“There are several different meanings of the words religion and spirituality, all of which are important. The whole point about an integral or comprehensive approach is that it must find a way to believably include all of those important meanings in a coherent whole.”

“To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.”

“Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.”

Source : Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

“Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.”

“New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?”