It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

I am simply a book drunkard.

I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.