Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

The Holy Scripture is a holy instruction of God.

Pictures and words are wholly inadequate to understand the complex creations and beauty of our world.

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

Superstitions add texture to life.

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.