“There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.”

“you've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.”

“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”

“Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.”

“Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”

“There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.”

“The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.”