If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to "encode" a radical change in human fate.

Babies smile without any reason. Be like a baby.

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

Mercy and favor are miracles of God that give a man something he could not even dare to dream of.

Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.