I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

Solomon smiles with us

I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers

It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.

Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

What I want, it is my ego’s demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.