"I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead."

"People have told me it's like Touched by an Angel on acid. I think that's a good description."

"It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."

"The language of imagination is the native language of man. It is the language of his excited intellect, of his aroused passions, of his devotion, of all the higher moods and temperaments of his mind."

"It seemed to him that the Order of St Clement labored under the curse of mediocrity, and had done so almost from the beginning. In Europe, the Clementines hadn't recovered from the French Revolution. …"