my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Planning is deciding your destination and setting your sail so you achieve the outcomes and arrive at your intended destination in the shortest possible time.

You're more mean-spirited than I remember you being.""It's this organic body. Hologram fur wasn't itchy.

it's unexpected pain brings change in a person's life. this change brings slowly transformation in same person

Are not my days few? Cease then and let me alone that I may take comfort a little Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.