#God

"Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time."

"The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails"

"Memories [10w] Spend half your life creating memories,the other half, remembering."

"Natural Born Killers [10w] After their first,every soldier becomes a natural born killer."

"I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone."

"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."

"When in Doubt [10w] If your relationship becomes stagnant,set fire to her dress."

"Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down."

"Fat Bungee Jumpers When I watch a fat woman bungee jumpI swear I can feel the earth leaving its orbit."

"Love and Blindness [10w] Love may be unilaterally blind,but divorce blinds both parties."

"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess."

"I am the coffee, and God is The Barista. Through me, he may awaken your soul. But the coffee knows not what flows through the mind of The Barista."

"If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?"

"... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God."

"The Refugee I packed my car with cash and valuablesand headed for the border.At the first checkpoint they took my cash.At the second they took my valuables.At the border they took my car and my shoes.I walked barefoot the last 100 feet to freedom,and was greeted with open arms by a person I didn't recognize.In time I discovered that strangerwas the me they could not take from me."

"The Poet's Disease My body atrophies.My mind swells.Imagination's become my crutch."

"Wrong Number [10w] There is no such thing as dialing a wrong number."

"Woman is the light of God."

"My Brooklyn Childhood [10w] "Motherfucker! I gotta put more goddamn change in the swear-jar."

"I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it."