But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

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In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Let thy pure act be thy prayer.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.