I'm not much of a jokester..

I prefer true over happy now..

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once..

Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to b….

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything..

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate wit….

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech..

Always sing below your potential..

Experience by itself is not science..

You can't be pro-business unless you're pro education..

Live close, visit often..

Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex..

I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and ha….

Nothing exists but him..

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification ….

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction….

The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distr….

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our Peop….

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong..