There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want to believe. I think I understand the tremendous attraction of the mysteries of the church to the same degree that I understand and appreciate the frustration people feel, especially believers, with the human rule-making arm of the church, with the not-miraculous part of the church - any church.