When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

I argue very well. Just ask any of my remaining friends.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.

We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.

When in doubt, initiate. Say yes—to love, to life, to joining in with others. That is how we stay on the right path and, at the same time, elevate humanity.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.