Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.

Love, at its best, wipes commonsenseAway. Much as drops will condenseFrom hidden liquid in the air, So, too, do lovers soon compareTheir temp’ratures til, happily, Their judgement fogs up suddenly.

If dreams were wine, you'd be a sot.

June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.

The thicker the hay; the easier mowed.

I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.

How can I have peace? Not by talking about peace, But by walking Along the road of peace.

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.