Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.

The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.

All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.

The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.

Our only reality is our perception of reality.

Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever, " the god said.

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

The culture isn't set up to embrace what we think and feel. Any doubt about that, just watch the ads on TV. They tell you where the dominant culture's values are - and they're not vegan!

What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it.