Amory Lorch Quotes & Sayings

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling. — Stephen Bayley

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? — John Updike

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe. — Ron Smothermon

For the first time in as long as he could remember, a finger of light, like the first ray of dawn, shone into the dark cavern of his soul. — Mark Beauregard

How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily? — Katherine Reay

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game. — Michael Jordan

This world was no place for anyone with access to another. — Joe Haldeman