Like a flame burning away the darknessLife is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

Two full time-outs. I could eat lunch with that long.

At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.