Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.