Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Kindness is an attribute of strength, it has boldness in it and the power of love.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn)

Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . . . I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.