Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back

Life will always have the value that you give it.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

The real meaning of mercy is that it can look on failure and still see a future.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

If I'm going to call myself a person of faith, I need to be willing to live a life that actually requires faith.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.