I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror

The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'