If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells that otherwise would be giving you trouble overloading your thinking. New scenery continually erases what came before; memory is lost, shuffled, relabeled and forgotten. Gum is chewed; buttons are pushed; windows are lowered and opened. A fast moving car is the only place where you're legally allowed to not deal with your problems. It's enforced meditation and this is good.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?