"There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates."

“A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

“While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.”

“I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.”

Source : "American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. August 2, 2002.

“After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.”

“People are always shocked to hear I'm an athlete by profession and even more shocked when they hear I'm a fencer from the United States. I challenge the stereotype that Muslim women are oppressed and that a Muslim can be American by birth. It's amazing how many assumptions people make, but I embrace the opportunity to use this Olympic platform to educate.”

Source : "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

“Light is time thinking about itself.”

“Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.”

“I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”