In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.