The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.