It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.

It is the Mass the matters.

They sayin I'm back, I agree with that.

We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

But if you loved me Why'd you leave me?