It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.

Fear is acceptable, as long as I don't allow it to cripple me...

When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.