Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Life can end any time, any day.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

Faith has answers that the ears can't always hear.

The road to the Super Bowl runs through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.