We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.

You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.

Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?

I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.