It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.

When GOD opens a door and it looks dark on the inside. Don't fret. You are forgetting one thing: you are light and only when you go in does it light up.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Commitment is a line you must cross. . . . it is the difference between dreaming and doing.

A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

As writers we need to crack open language.

Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.