Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

I think some songs are better on vinyl.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.

My name is Gin, and I kill people.

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.