The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.

Handsome vampires are addictive

When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!

Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

Everyone has the answers.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.