The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.

Create a world within the world and be happy inside it! Don’t forget, you are not condemned to live the world as is!

Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.

Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to inform the chaotic heavens with sense.

Regaining health is more difficult an objective then becoming ill. Becoming ill is a random act of ignorance and regaining health is an intentional effort in frustration.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.