in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

Remember: whatever is burrowed deep in one hungry soul is bound to be tethered to the hearts of many, many more.

Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced.

The best narrative is one of infinite love. A spiritual affair--one not of the material world. Intermingled, with no beginning nor end--it will always stand the test of time.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.

Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.

I want the tigard. (Varyk) And I want you to leave. Guess who’s going to win this argument? And in case you’re even denser than you appear, it’s not you. (Dev)

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.