"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president."

"We need time to lose interest in things."

"Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words."

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"And so when the whole man will be outside himself, and happy for no reason except that he is so outside himself, he will enjoy some of the ineffable share in the supreme good which draws everything into itself."

"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."

"Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will."

"The desire to write grows with writing."

"I feel sexy because I feel loved. That's what sexy is-it's feeling good from the inside. When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire."

"There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things."

"Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment."

"When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha."

"Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end."

"Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something."

"Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?"

"One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms."

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?"

"Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to."

"And if you are already flying upside down and don’t know it, your cleverness will do you little good."

"In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work."