When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we dont know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. – Anais Nin
I was 21 in 1968, so Im as much a child of the 60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. – Salman Rushdie
I love it when the left and when the president say, Dont try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns. They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self. – Rick Santorum
