To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.