Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.

We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

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

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.