All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.