Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

We claim to have the light in the Church yet we want to lock ourselves within the four walls of that same Church.

Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

Now is our time to change the world

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.