Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling.

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Even if you are perfect the World isn't.

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

You are the God. You are the embodiment of God. The moment you start to love everyone and everything, you are doing your divine duty.

It's funny because it's funny.

Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!