...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.