How superfluous other people can seem when you are convinced you already have the only ones you need.

As my creator, God knows better than I do what will truly make me happy.

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents