We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

Change is possible. You must want it enough for the change to take place.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

If I'd had covered [ Brett Favre] in Atlanta, I'd presume he'd go down as another Todd Marinovich. Talent out the gills, but lacking the control and discipline to make much of himself.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

I do think that every generation has its unique story.

The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.