When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.