I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they're going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It's really a lot of fun.