“We are full of dreams […] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.”

“I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.”

“Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.”

“Preachers have created for us patterns of behavior unattainable for humans, they then left us chasing them as if we were chasing a dream”

“The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.”

“Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.”

“We believe in marriage for life, and deprecate all this loose, pestiferous talk in favor of easy divorce... Be not deceived — free love means free lust.”

“Complete honesty has nothing to do with "purity" or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.”

“It made her pure, and those we love must be pure, otherwise we can't love them. But loving a person is also making her pure. (p. 189)”

“We on an ultralight beam
This is a God dream
This is everything Deliver us serenity
Deliver us peace
Deliver us loving
We know we need it
That's why we need You now
Pray for Paris,
Pray for the parents.”