The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.