Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.