The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.

The strongest force in our universe is not overriding power, but love.

When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

I don’t want fame, money, or duty. I want to close my eyes and see your loving beauty.

As long as you create, you are being created.

The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things...and everybody wants some.

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Houston, we have a problem.