We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

You weresunrise to merise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

You werewater to medeep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

You weremoon's eye to mepull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lieAnd burn, here where the starlings fly

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Stop shouting praise the Lord when you can't handle your life, you can't represent God when you are messing up his reputation.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyone’s interest

Be therefore not anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

All my wife wanted for Valentine's Day was a little card - American Express.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.