Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

Each time demands its own kind of film.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."

Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.