The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings.... I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?