You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...

. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.

Hate wound the heart.

Your own family circle knows whether Christ lives in you and through you.

I walked up the stairs and hesitated at the open door.

Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

I don't want revival...I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.