If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.