We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.