I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.