If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.