All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.