One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

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.

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom

― all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ―

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

Don't back off on traditional values. It's important to show respect and tolerance for others, but they must show the same respect for your values. Tolerance is a two-way street.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.