"Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble."

“If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.”

“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.”

“I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.”

“things never seem as bad as they are.”

“Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.”

“You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.”

“Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.”

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.12, Beacon Press

“Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.”