I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.