"That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded."

“If you don't respect nothin' else, you will respect this hustle.”

“Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.196, Zola Books

“I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.”

“If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.”

“Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.”

“I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that we are often misdirected by the fact that it fits into a larger philosophy and movement which it supports. But it is not that philosophy or movement. It is a design approach for realizing a new paradigm.”

“As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.”

“Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.”