Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.