A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive, a little imprecise, until now.

These scars that we have... they don't go away. They only fade with time, but they're still hauntingly there.

That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.