The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

Large corporate entities are more untrusted than trusted. And they've earned that by the way they've done things.

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.