Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

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.

My father’s corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years.

Last warning. I don't play nice.

Loneliness is more painful than being hurt

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. So create who and what you are, and then experience that.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

Fate does not always seek our consent.