Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.

If you are living in the electrified wireless west, then you are living a very abnormal lifestyle that your genetics has no adaptation to.

I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

God is always at work around you.

I definitely believe in marriage.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.