“From bitter searching of the heart,quickened with passion and with painwe riseto play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.”

“Then I start to struggleWith a feeble songWhich will overcome meMany miles from home”

“Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof.You saw her bathing on the roof.Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.She tied you to a kitchen chair,she broke your throne, and she cut your hair.And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah....”

“How bitter werethe Prozac pillsof the lastfew hundred mornings”

“My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.”

“My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.”

“Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.”