"I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country"

“A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew.”

“I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!”

“Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.865, Penguin

“Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.”

“For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.”

“The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.”

“Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.”

“My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.”

Source : "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.