Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.

Suicide is just stoping you and everyone around you from getting better.

Seeing’ two-dimensional images is therefore something that we learn to do

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.