I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it.

The sick person is able to sense more than other people notice.

The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Germany will never break the peace of its own accord.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.