I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

Mary Oliver

He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

Virginia Woolf

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Samuel Johnson

URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.

Chris Clark

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

C.S. Lewis

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

Howard Thurman

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

Hermann Hesse

I’m no genius, but I’m smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.

Thomas J. Watson

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Alexander Herzen

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Nicholas Boileau

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes