Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

You dont need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.