We cannot hope to bring about effective change unless we are willing to BE changed.

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.

I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.