A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.

Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

If you make it right with yourself, it will be right with the whole world.

No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the human race.

Pride always puts [self] above others—and cuts [itself] off from them as a result. No one likes an arrogant, prideful person.

I divide my time badly.

It's amazing that even though I've lost everything else, I still have wrestling.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.