Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.

Be the love you seek.

There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.