This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

What is exciting today is that with technology filmmaking has been democratized, and so many more people have access to making a film.

Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.