Fraud makes the world go round.

All blessings are mixed blessings.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.