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“If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.”
Source : John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan
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“I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X... because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes along with that generation, it may have something to do with the fact that "Never Mind the Bollocks" was released when we were 16-years-old and that was really the album that crystalized a generation.”
Source : "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, hyperreal.org. 
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“Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.”
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“The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.”
Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.61, U of Minnesota Press
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“I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.”
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“They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.”
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“There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.”
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“Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.”
