A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.

I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.