"Passion is what drives us crazy, what makes us do extraordinary things, to discover, to challenge ourselves. Passion is and should always be the heart of courage."

“We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.”

“Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.”

“Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.”

“I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.”

Source : Interview with Paul Harris, paulharrisonline.blogspot.com. December 12, 1997.

“I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.”

“We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”

Source : Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Division of Labor in Society”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

“In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.”

“I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me...”