Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.