Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.

Sometimes the best vacation is simply closing your eyes for several minutes and recalling wonderful memories.

I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

Everyone must live, and everyone must express themselves, and must express themselves in the way of their karma.

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.