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“I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.”
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“In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.”
Source : Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books
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“No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.”
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“After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers.”
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“Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.”
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“Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable.”
Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016. 
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“If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.”
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“a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.”
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“I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.”
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“I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.”
