Friends don’t build cages for each other.

It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

You both talk too much, ” the kid says. “Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.”We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn’t mean to. And I didn’t kill her, kill her.”“Oh, I see. As long as you didn’t kill her, kill her, then that’s okay.

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.

For the time being—”He emphasized each word. “I’ll be the only one climbing through your window.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.