The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

The toughest bullshit to cut through, is one's own.

It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.

Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

The only war is the war against the imagination.

I don't want to pretend to tell that I always feel the presence of God because I don't. My consciousness is very often closed to that feeling - most of the time.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.