Pastoral Resources

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.