I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.

I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.

I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.