Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.