End Quotes

For anybody who’s ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

Music is only a means to an end – it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

As one tale ends, so another begins.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.