As the nicknames get shorter, people come closer.

Weakness is weaker when discovered by others.

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.