The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

All salvation is temporary

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.