True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

I was in '78 recently, " he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?

The mind is the sacred centre of all attraction.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.

A watered down gospel is no gospel at all

Giving back is the new luxury.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

Art has no end but its own perfection.