... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

The higher power, mighty God!

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

I reiterate once more, forgive the offenders to let divine justice be made.

It's not love on which the strongest foundations are built. It's the decency of merciful lies.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.