The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

Old people go to the polls because they can't get erections, young people stay home, do drugs and have sex.

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

How wondrous familiar is a fool!