...they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have "liftoff" power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

Around this world will I be enough?From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama bluesI am nothing if I'm not with you.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

I would never do anything outside of the rules of play.

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.