Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Walking with Murphythrough the bone-freezing chilltoward the bus stop, I start shivering.And somehow, when he slips his arm around meto warm me up, it feels right.Righter than anything ever has.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

You can hire a bodyguard, to protect you at the bank for example.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.