Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

Everywhere is here and every when is now.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.