Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

It was a fictional story, but like any good fiction, without the need to adjust or conceal the truth, it actually might bethe greatest expression of truth.

Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

Holy name alone is sufficient to take you back home back to godhead. However to cultivate the mood of surrender You need a Guru.

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.