Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.