Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.

Two thousand years and I’ve never met anyone so stubborn.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.