Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions.

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

It is a great art to saunter !

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.