"A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery."

“Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.”

Source : Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.60, Zondervan

“I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.”

“Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.”

“I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.”

“It's going to be over fairly soon; it goes by quick. Even if I live till I'm one hundred, it's quick.”

“If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

“One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.”

“Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”