Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

Human beings are no damn good, ” he said. “We are even worse than animals. We like ...”He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.“We like monsters, ” he said.

Alaska is just such an incredibly beautiful place. Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes about God and creation.

Art history is always changing too.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

When a candidate walks away from a reality show, that's when you know they're serious about being president of the United States.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.