It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?