Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

We are not going to let Donald Trump bankrupt America the way he bankrupted his casinos..

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace..

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking..

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased.

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all..

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace..

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time..

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

Sports are a metaphor for life..

I don't call myself a writer..

I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words..

We never get so near God as when we plead for others..

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life..

I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching..

Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings..

We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God..

The coolest thing you can become is yourself..