When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.