It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.