Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.