…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.