We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.