I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

Colors are things we experience.

Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.