Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Imagination is Everything!

what is a journeywithout someone who wandersif sometimes a pairis made of two

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish...Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

Sophie is asking mum ‘Why am I NOT a doll NOT an adult NOT a boy NOT a giraffe?’ It’s so easy to miss all we are when we focus on what we are not!

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.