An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.