We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Everybody always wants to fix me but I am a beautifully flawed mess.

Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my heart!

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

The blessing of God enriches the soul for eternity while that given by the world enriches the body temporarily.

The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.