TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Love poured out multiplies love poured in.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

When its raining the field gets wet, then all of a sudden everyones running slower

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.