There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.