Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.