Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Chris….

I don't really take myself very seriously..

The Fuhrer is always right. I sense it..

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

How can you hide from what never goes away?.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.].

Good wares make good markets..

Nature is always hinting at us..

Only the bold get to the top..

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

I'm actually more confident when I'm tan..

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive..

I have to chose my words carefully..

The more things you own, the more they own you..

Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key,….

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take i….

I'm not a queen of anything, you know..

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate..

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..