I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.

What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.

If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

One day the price of gold will be higher than the Dow Jones.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.