How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.