He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.