But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Winning and Loosing is a part of game, Arrogance is the animal you need to tame, Conscience is the thing which can get you fame, Oh GOD !! please help me to do the same.

Since the emergence of Facebook, so many persons have become so vulnerable that they no longer have any secret

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not dogs.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.