Quotes from authors that died on Dec 10th
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
Augusto Pinochet
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
Richard Pryor
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton
Jack Reed 
Michael Bennett 
Annette Lu 
Paul Prudhomme 
Jessi Colter 
Bill Dickey 
Natalie Cole 
Robert Plant