We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.