Keep your treasure to yourself.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

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 thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.

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.

I think there is a Paris inside us all.