When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle.

BAREFOOT BEACHTake off your shoes-You're on barefoot beach.Relax in the sunshine-Broken only by trees.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.

I am really, really tired.

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.

Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.