"Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission."

“I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.”

“Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.”

“It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.”

Source : Saint Ambrose, Aeterna Press (2016). “On the Duties of the Clergy”, p.49, Aeterna Press

“Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.”

“We all have a responsibility to create a just society”

Source : "Philadelphia art store owner charged with smuggling African ivory", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2011.

“After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.”

“At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.”

“We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.”