"We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers."

“When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen.”

“Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous”

“Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.”

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

“I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.”

“A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.”

“Your conduct matters a great deal. What’s in your mind matters even more.”

“We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

“I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.134, Wendy Lamb Books