“Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.”

“Wait-a-minute!Reality kicked in after marking its spot `position vacant for the short and pleasant while. He groaned mournfully as he found himself staring at the inside of his own eyelids. The fir...”

“In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole again. It's the kind of strength and determination you find when you have hit rock bottom and you...”

“The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so much a final frontier as an ultimate frontier; the ultimate frontier as wide as it is deep. Star...”

“It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe.”

“Ex Fleet man?He was a full Commander, last I heard, sir.Interesting. Falconer commented. Get me his specs. If I have to take him aboard my ship, I want to know all about him. She swallowed. Yes sir...”

“It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.”

“It is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by 'speciesism'. By analogy with raci...”

“When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert...”

“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit o...”

“I've poured my heart out on this page. Now burn it and destroy the evidence that anyone ever cared this much for you.”

“I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”