It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.
I take every possible side.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field. . . Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.
It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.