How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

The sparrow still falls.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.