My mother was my first jealous lover.

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.

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?

Each person on this planet is inherently intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.