As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

Love, in its purest form, is biology.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.

Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

instead of venting my anger, which is really just hurt dressed up for a night on the town, I ask if anyone needs a drink.

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

Many people plan financially for retirement—but not spiritually and emotionally.

If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.

She was nice. Nice is good.

Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.