For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

Karma: The delusion of the pretentious who think the Universe should act as their debt collector.

Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.-The Rabbi-

If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.

But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

As the master so the valet.