Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.