...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.

I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

I am not what you see and hear.