"You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do."

"I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there."

"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."

"I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner."

"True wisdom begins when you realize the true master is an eternal student."

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson — an essential principle for the reflective life."