Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?" - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, "do you like me right now."

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.