The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.

The heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God's law so it doesn't apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

No one could have imagined a place like Havana, Cuba. It is absurdly contradictory, always arguing with itself over whether it is audacious or meek, heroic or stupid, beautiful or abhorrent.

When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.

Rich enough that I don't have to tell em I'm rich

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.