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.

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 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.

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.

A dove carries peace on its wings.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

I don't wanna change the world, I just wanna leave it colder..Light the fuse and burn it up, Take the path that leads to nowhere..

I will never leave you for I am intertwined in the fabric of you're being and my life blood's essence pulsates through your'e veins.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

My girlfriend asked me if I only love her for her body. I said no, baby. Just parts of it.

Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.