Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.

I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

Never kick a man when he's up.

Believe in your dreams and that anything is possible.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth