Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

God is not against money, He is against the money been used outside His purpose

In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.

Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.