Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed.