Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively, but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

She was exactly right and wrong in the perfect sort of way. This kiss would be the first of many, she was the type of girl I would desperately fight for to stay.

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings!

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

It's not good to throw back scotch with a new fetus.

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.