It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wolloff

In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return.

I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.

The blessing begins at home.

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.

Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.