Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.

If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.