Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

I am too old to think.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have