Chris

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.”
― Thomas Paine

“the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else while you're uncool.”
― Lester Bangs

“...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.”
― Alison Lurie, Real People