A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

Hillary Clinton doesn't have any natural talents. Hillary doesn't have any natural connection to people. Hillary doesn't have any charisma, magnetism. All of that has to be manufactured by the media.

We sent out 3,000 Valentines to the ladies, asking them to be my voter.

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.