Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

I don't really get recognised very much.

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

We need to talk with each other, honestly, simply, caringly.

In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.