Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.

Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.