“When guys are horny, they'll think with the head in their pants rather than the one on their shoulders.”

“My Mother... would tell me to imagine Jesus was in the backseat... and that would stop me. What really stopped me was imagining my mother in the backseat.”

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been.”

“Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a curious kind of insult to another by falling in love with him, for we are really looking at our own projection of God, not at the other person. If two people are in love, they tread on star dust for a time and live happily ever after—that is so long as this experience of divinity has obliterated time for them. Only when they come down to earth do they have to look at each other realistically and only then does the possibility of mature love exist. If one person is in love and the other not, the cooler one is likely to say, "We would have something better between us if you would look at me rather than at your image of me.”

“No one can ever say the name Abel without saying Cain first.”

“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self.”

“When you break something and leave it lying there for someone to pick up the pieces, you don't get much say in how they put it back together.”