After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?
A critic is a man who expects miracles.
I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
There are no office hours for leaders.
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.
I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.
The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.
I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.