"You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon."

“Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.”

“Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.”

“The whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common; we're just a crowd of people who don't really fit in anywhere attempting to convince one another that we do. I guess I'll put my sunglasses on and pretend, like everyone else, that I too belong here...”

“I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.”

Source : "Blues All Around Me". Book by B. B. King, David Ritz, www.indiewire.com. 1996.

“If you go into a store, with a gun, and rob it, you have forfeited your right to not get shot”

“I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had”

Source : "Nat Hentoff: Obama Dangerous, Destructive". Interview with John W. Whitehead, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 11, 2009.

“If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.”

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

“Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.”

Source : 'New Fiction' no. 15, January 1978 (the 'classic formula' for a novel)