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.

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

If you can be anything, be real.

It’s like saying you’re fixed in the past, and you’re running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of something new

When business is good it pays to advertise when business is bad you've got to advertise.

It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.