What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.

What's afterlife?" Asher asked, sincerely, indicating a trio of passing shoppers laden with brightly colored bags, who turned up their noses. "There's only life.

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

Envy is a buzz killer."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

I love my kids so much. They teach me something every day. It always brings richness to my work, and even more in life. I feel lucky to be able to do both.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah!

Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.