Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.