"You write your life story by the choices you make,"

“Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy,”

“The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.107, Library of America

“When I make a picture, I make love.”

Source : Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

“New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.”

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”

“The future is much like the present, only longer.”

“But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.”

“The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.”

Source : "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview With Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 16, 2002.