Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!