You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Metaphor is embodied in language.