You have to create tension between reality and aspiration
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.
To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.
The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.
The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.
Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.
As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.
Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.