The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.