Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring?

Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.

I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.