Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.