Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.

Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?