I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books