Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.