Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.