Every day is a training day and every event is a training event.

It's not what you do, but what you appear to do.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

My daughter, I see more Pharisees among Christians than there were around Pilate.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

Relax, she’s not really converting. (Acheron) Look at her! She’s not exactly baking cookies! (Xypher)

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.