Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.

Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.